最近一个不好的消息就是申请加急visa面谈时间被拒了。真是悲剧啊。同样的材料，lp的通过了，我被据了。只能说所谓的管批准的处长是一个比较主观的工作，可能他们也是采用的电风扇吹风法，不幸的是那天我用的是自己的纸，比较轻。

好吧，只能10.9号去了，会议是25号，时间真是很紧啊。我现在只能祈祷自己不会被check。

呵呵，要说真是无奈啊。美国的网站上堂堂正正地写着他们进行的是有罪推定，所有签证的人都被默认为有移民倾向，必须自己举证证明没有移民倾向。天朝早已不是天朝啊，想去美国诚实劳动合法经营还要被五颜六色的人猜来猜去，被按着手把十个指头的指纹都留下。当你急了，说自己没有移民倾向时，还有可能被人以一种看熊猫的眼神瞟。这种感觉很不好，真的很不好。

或者就是无奈吧。我打心眼里认为东夷西域南越北胡，可是自己未来可能又要披发左衽。礼失求诸野，聊以自慰吧。

终于摆脱了之前被coling据的阴霾啊，不过可惜被coling据的文章被再次拒了

好消息是另一篇中了，这个是我的第一篇英文文章啊，值得纪念。

Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy

authors： Weiwei Ding and Baobao Chang

accepted by EMNLP 2008

希望能去Hawaii啊。

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Reviewers give a score of between 1 and 10 for each paper. The program committee will interpret the numerical score in the following way:

10: Top 5% of accepted NIPS papers, a seminal paper for the ages.

I will consider not reviewing for NIPS again if this is rejected.

9: Top 15% of accepted NIPS papers, an excellent paper, a strong accept.

I will fight for acceptance

8: Top 50% of accepted NIPS papers, a very good paper, a clear accept.

I vote and argue for acceptance

7: Good paper, accept.

I vote for acceptance, although would not be upset if it were rejected.

6: Marginally above the acceptance threshold.

I tend to vote for accepting it, but leaving it out of the program would be no great loss.

5: Marginally below the acceptance threshold.

I tend to vote for rejecting it, but having it in the program would not be that bad.

4: An OK paper, but not good enough. A rejection.

I vote for rejecting it, although would not be upset if it were accepted.

3: A clear rejection.

I vote and argue for rejection.

2:.A strong rejection. I'm surprised it was submitted to this conference.

I will fight for rejection

1: Trivial or wrong or known. I'm surprised anybody wrote such a paper.

I will consider not reviewing for NIPS again if this is accepted

The words below is abstracted from "what makes the mainstream media mainstream?", by Noam, chomsky.

 

In the U.S., there was a counterpart. Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1916 on an anti-war platform. The U.S. was a very pacifist country. It has always been. People don’t want to go fight foreign wars. The country was very much opposed to the first World War and Wilson was, in fact, elected on an anti-war position. "Peace without victory" was the slogan. But he was intending to go to war. So the question was, how do you get the pacifist population to become raving anti-German lunatics so they want to go kill all the Germans? That requires propaganda. So they set up the first and really only major state propaganda agency in U.S. history. The Committee on Public Information it was called (nice Orwellian title), called also the Creel Commission. The guy who ran it was named Creel. The task of this commission was to propagandize the population into a jingoist hysteria. It worked incredibly well. Within a few months there was a raving war hysteria and the U.S. was able to go to war.

 

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Commitee on Public Information? haha, quite ironic. what about the department of propaganda?

there are three most boring topics, the politics, the sports and the religion. perhaps the mass media wil be added. Ok, time's up. Now focus more on GRE